Impaired Waters

impaired waterbodies that are not NYC reservoirs

use IR5_impaired_confirmed
fishing 191
primary_contact_recreation 114
secondary_contact_recreation 161
source_of_water_supply 39

Map

The following map plots the impaired ponded waters under each designated use category.

Please note that several impaired waterbodies are not currently in our database:

LOCATION_PWL_ID waterbody use
0104-0032 Lake Erie (Erie Basin) fishing
0104-0033 Lake Erie (Outer Harbor, North) fishing
0104-0034 Lake Erie (Outer Harbor, South) fishing
0104-0035 Lake Erie (Northeast Shoreline) fishing
0104-0036 Lake Erie (Northeast Shoreline) primary_contact_recreation
0104-0036 Lake Erie (Northeast Shoreline) fishing
0104-0036 Lake Erie (Northeast Shoreline) secondary_contact_recreation
0104-0037 Lake Erie (Main Lake, North) fishing
0104-0037 Lake Erie (Main Lake, North) primary_contact_recreation
0104-0037 Lake Erie (Main Lake, North) secondary_contact_recreation
0105-0009 Lake Erie (Dunkirk Harbor) primary_contact_recreation
0105-0009 Lake Erie (Dunkirk Harbor) fishing
0105-0009 Lake Erie (Dunkirk Harbor) secondary_contact_recreation
0105-0011 Lake Erie (Barcelona Harbor) fishing
0105-0033 Lake Erie (Main Lake, South) fishing
0105-0033 Lake Erie (Main Lake, South) primary_contact_recreation
0105-0033 Lake Erie (Main Lake, South) secondary_contact_recreation
0301-0053 Lake Ontario Shoreline, Western fishing
0301-0053 Lake Ontario Shoreline, Western primary_contact_recreation
0301-0053 Lake Ontario Shoreline, Western secondary_contact_recreation
0301-0068 Rochester Embayment - West primary_contact_recreation
0301-0068 Rochester Embayment - West secondary_contact_recreation
0301-0068 Rochester Embayment - West fishing
0301-0069 Lake Ontario Shoreline, Western primary_contact_recreation
0301-0069 Lake Ontario Shoreline, Western secondary_contact_recreation
0301-0069 Lake Ontario Shoreline, Western fishing
0301-0070 Lake Ontario Shoreline, Western fishing
0301-0070 Lake Ontario Shoreline, Western secondary_contact_recreation
0301-0070 Lake Ontario Shoreline, Western primary_contact_recreation
0301-0071 Lake Ontario Shoreline, Western fishing
0301-0071 Lake Ontario Shoreline, Western primary_contact_recreation
0301-0071 Lake Ontario Shoreline, Western secondary_contact_recreation
0301-0072 Lake Ontario Shoreline, Western primary_contact_recreation
0301-0072 Lake Ontario Shoreline, Western secondary_contact_recreation
0301-0072 Lake Ontario Shoreline, Western fishing
0302-0002 Rochester Embayment - East secondary_contact_recreation
0302-0002 Rochester Embayment - East fishing
0302-0002 Rochester Embayment - East primary_contact_recreation
0302-0040 Lake Ontario Shoreline, Oswego fishing
0302-0041 Lake Ontario Shoreline, Central fishing
0302-0042 Lake Ontario Shoreline, Central fishing
0302-0043 Lake Ontario Shoreline, Central fishing
0302-0044 Lake Ontario Shoreline, Central fishing
0302-0044 Lake Ontario Shoreline, Central secondary_contact_recreation
0302-0044 Lake Ontario Shoreline, Central primary_contact_recreation
0302-0045 Lake Ontario Shoreline, Central fishing
0303-0017 Lake Ontario Shoreline, Eastern fishing
0303-0023 Lake Ontario Shoreline, Eastern fishing
0303-0024 Lake Ontario Shoreline, Eastern fishing
0303-0026 Lake Ontario Shoreline, Eastern fishing
0303-0027 Lake Ontario Shoreline, Eastern fishing
0303-0028 Lake Ontario Shoreline, Eastern fishing
0303-0029 Lake Ontario Shoreline, Eastern fishing
0303-0030 Lake Ontario Shoreline, Eastern fishing
0303-0031 Lake Ontario Shoreline, Eastern fishing
0303-0102 Black River Bay fishing
0403-0056 Andover Pond fishing
0901-0001 Saint Lawrence River, Main Stem fishing
0901-0001 Saint Lawrence River, Main Stem source_of_water_supply
0901-0002 Saint Lawrence River, Main Stem fishing
0901-0004 Saint Lawrence River, Main Stem fishing
0901-0015 Saint Lawrence River, Main Stem fishing
0902-0045 Lower, Upper Twin Ponds, more fishing
1201-0228 Utica Harbor secondary_contact_recreation
1201-0228 Utica Harbor fishing

Parameters

The following table lists impairment parameters and the frequency they impaired each use.

Lake Characteristics

The following table details the acreage, watershed acreage, depth (from the depth profile), and % land use categories for each impaired waterbody

Lakes impaired for water_supply_use

Lakes impaired for primary_contact_recreation

Lakes impaired for secondary_contact_recreation

Lakes impaired for fishing

Phosphorus

The distribution of size classes in lakes with phosphorus impairments in any designated use.

All the sites with phosphorus impairment of any designated use